"At Stanford, the psychology department is assessing the feasibility of teaching mindfulness to families. “Parents and teachers tell kids 100 times a day to pay attention,” said Philippe R. Goldin, a researcher. “But we never teach them how.”Dr. Saltzman, co-director of the mindfulness study at Stanford, said the initial findings showed increased control of attention and “less negative internal chatter — what one girl described as ‘the gossip inside my head: I’m stupid, I’m fat or I’m going to fail math,’ ” Dr. Saltzman said." Read More>>

 

"Acceptance & Mindfulness Treatments for Children & Adolescents: A Practitioner's Guide", New Harbinger
The goals of this chapter are to (1) provide an overview of an MBSR curriculum designed for children in grades 4-6 and their parents, and (2) ,report preliminary research findings based on the implementation of this curriculum. Specifically, the data address whether mindfulness training is feasible for children and whether such training enhances attention, self-regulation, social competence and, perhaps most importantly, children’s overall well-being. Read More >>

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Acceptance & Minfulness for Children & Adolescents , Laurie A., Ph.D. Greco
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